FRCP(C) re abortion.Dr. Patrick Coffee's letter Catholic Insight, Sept. 4, 2004) in regard to the subject of voting for a "pro-choice" Catholic politician made two points which require a response. He stated that most "prolife" people agree that there can be certain circumstances where abortion is permitted, but that there is no agreement as to how far those circumstances should go. Agreement or consensus is not the basis upon which Catholic moral teaching is founded. Church teaching is founded on natural law, Revelation, and the teaching of the Magisterium mag·is·te·ri·um n. Roman Catholic Church The authority to teach religious doctrine. [Latin, the office of a teacher or other person in authority, from magister, master; see . Whether others, Catholics or non-Catholics, agree or disagree, and to what extent they agree with Catholic teaching, is irrelevant. Secondly, abortion, that is the direct deliberate killing of an unborn child, as an end in itself or as a means to an end, is prohibited by the Church because it is an intrinsic evil. On the other hand, if a mother has a life-threatening pathology, for example, ectopic pregnancy ectopic pregnancy or extrauterine pregnancy Condition in which a fertilized egg is imbedded outside the uterus (see fertilization). Early on, it may resemble a normal pregnancy, with hormonal changes, amenorrhea, and development of a placenta. , it is permitted to treat that pathological 1. pathological - [scientific computation] Used of a data set that is grossly atypical of normal expected input, especially one that exposes a weakness or bug in whatever algorithm one is using. condition in order to save her life, despite the fact that the treatment will have the unintended consequence For the 1996 novel by John Ross, see . Unintended consequences are situations where an action results in an outcome that is not (or not only) what is intended. The unintended results may be foreseen or unforeseen, but they should be the logical or likely results of the of indirectly causing the death of the embryo embryo (ĕm`brēō), name for the developing young of an animal or plant. In its widest definition, the embryo is the young from the moment of fertilization until it has become structurally complete and able to survive as a separate organism. . This is an example of the application of the moral principle of the "double effect" of a human action. Toronto, ON |
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